Applying for Non-Degree Graduate Study

Financial Aid

Students enrolled in non-degree study are not eligible for federal financial aid. For more information, see the eligibility sections on Mason's Financial Aid website.

If you hold an undergraduate degree, you may be eligible to take graduate classes that may later be transferred to a degree program. Prospective students apply for non-degree graduate study online using the Application for Graduate Study.

Economics: Graduate-level courses are available to non-degree students only with the approval of the course instructor.

English: Graduate-level Creative Writing courses require the permission of either the program director or the instructor of a specific course. Samples of original creative work will be required before such permission is granted.

Psychology: Graduate course enrollment in Psychology for non-degree students is welcome, but must be approved by the instructor in advance. This is likely appropriate for numerous 500- and 600-level courses (and only a few at the 700-level or above), as long as the student has the required prerequisites or equivalent. The following (clinical assessment and intervention) courses are unavailable to non-degree students: Psyc 709, 710, 722, 750, 751,790, 810, 811, 816, 822, 823, 831, 832, 851, 860, 862, 881, 883, 885, 888.

Non-degree students are ineligible to take 800-level courses in any CHSS program.